Am
He gets up each morning and he goes downtown
C
Where everyone’s his boss and he’s lost in an angry land
E
He’s a little mad
A
But then, he comes uptown each ev’nin’ to my tenement
F#m
Uptown where folks don’t have to pay much rent
D
F#m
And when he’s there with me, he can see that he’s everything
F
Dm
A
Then he’s tall, he don’t crawl, he’s a king
Am
Downtown, he’s just one of a million guys
C
He don’t get no breaks and he takes all they got to give
E
‘Cause he’s got to live
A
But then, he comes uptown where he can hold his head up high
F#m
Uptown, he knows at I’ll be standing by
D
F#m
And when I take his hand, there’s no man who could put him down
F
Dm
A
The world is sweet, it’s at his feet when he’s uptown
A
F#m
Whoa-oa-oa-oa-oa-oa-oa
A
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
F#m
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
A
uptown where he can hold his head up high
F#m
Uptown, he knows that I’ll be standing by
D
F#m
And when I take his hand, there’s no man who could put him down
F
Dm
A
The world is sweet, it’s at his feet when he’s uptown
A
F#m
Whoa-oa-oa-oa-oa-oa-oa
A
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
F#m
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Am
E
F#m
Dm
D
A
F
C
